HR 2015 Keynote Address: LIVE from Las Vegas

You are watching coverage of the opening keynote address live today from HR 2015, featuring Mike Ettling, President: HR Line of Business, SAP.

Starting at 9am PST, Mike Ettling's keynote "How moving your HR to the Cloud is like the game 'Snakes and Ladders'" highlights SAP’s HR solution strategy across cloud and on-premise, along with SAP innovations relating to IT integration and workforce management, running SuccessFactors on SAP HANA, and user experience with SAP Fiori.

Immediately following the keynote, view a live panel discussion on “Moving to the cloud: What, why, and how,” with experts David Ludlow of SAP, Roland Cloutier of ADP, Jan Redmond of Capgemini, and Megan Masoner of NTT DATA, sharing insights on cloud requirements, benefits, and whether and how to migrate mission-critical workloads to the cloud.

Learn in detail about the newest development additions to SAP NetWeaver 7.4. Topics covered include features for database-independent programming with Open SQL, unified data modeling and definition with core data services, and simplified control of stored procedures with ABAP-managed database procedures.

by Dr. Berg and Brian Wood, Vice President and Product Strategist, SAP Labs

The introduction of BW 7.40 on HANA has resulted in something of a rebirth for BW, and this article summarizes the history, the current solution, and the potential future for this one of a kind solution.

What changes in a move from legacy, Excel-based budgeting and planning to an integrated SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) platform? How does the 10.1 BPC release differ from 10.0? Puneet Gupta, Kranthi Kumar and Sanjeev Mehta take readers’ SAP BPC questions on preparing for implementation.

Hear how customers Groupe Danone and the US National Football League (NFL) are using SAP HANA Cloud Platform to build new cloud apps and extend on-premise applications for additional customization, enhanced business flows, and more. With robust services for integration, identity management, API management, mobile and collaboration, the platform-as-a-service from SAP makes all the complicated stuff simple, so you can quickly modernize your business applications. Find out why both organizations chose SAP HANA Cloud Platform for their solutions, what they learned along the way and more.

Achieving an efficient order-to-cash process is an ongoing challenge for many organizations – but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how a cloud-based e-payment processing and tokenization approach can streamline the order-to-cash process. Come away with a clear understanding of the drivers behind a decision to take order-to-cash to the cloud, the factors that can help you choose the right solution, and the final impact an automated, cloud-based approach can have on the business itself. Attend this webinar to gain insight into the lessons learned by one company that converted to a cloud-based approach.

Download a sample chapter from this book to learn about payroll, including information on deleting payroll processes, reversing posting run documents, inserting custom messages in payroll stubs, and creating files for third-party providers.

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Kristine Erickson, Editor

Thanks for your question! Dr. Berg's colleague Rob Frye of Comerit took a break from the final editing of their new book “The SAP BW to HANA Migration Handbook” with this answer:

The project team makeup will vary based on the size of the BW system that you will be migrating. For small projects (less than 5 TB), we recommend a division of labor between a core team and a test team. The core team should have a project manager, a HANA Basis support person, a HANA developer for optimization and modelling, a HANA test lead, and a BW Basis support person. For the test team, each business area included in the migration should have a dedicated functional tester. A small project should take approximately 14 weeks.

For medium projects (less than 10 TB), you will need a core team (as described above) and one test team for each business area. Each test team in this case should consist of a BW/HANA test lead and a functional tester. The core team should also include a project advisor with experience in large-scale migrations to troubleshoot problems during the project. This advisor will usually not be a full-time resource.

For large and extra-large migration projects of more than 10 TB, with high complexity, the project duration should be extended to allow for thorough testing of each business area. The test teams for these migrations should be expanded to consist of two functional testers, a HANA test lead, and a BW test lead for each business area. The core team should remain essentially the same as a medium project core team. The duration of the project should be increased to approximately 6 months (or more if needed).

Please let me know if you have any further questions. - Rob Frye, Comerit
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1 week ago

RSANCHEB

Great blog Dr Berg!, I have the following question, what would the team must carry out these activities? could be 1 basis, 1 bw consultants? regards & thanks. Ramon S
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Kristine Erickson

Thanks Bharat for your questions. We passed them on to Jeremy Masters and he answered:

Q. Is it possible to change the layout of HR Renewal framework (to change the tile size) structure?

A. Yes, it is possible to change the layout of the HR Renewal framework, but it not recommended since you would be modifying SAP delivered code. The Suite Page Builder is the mechanism for you to “enhance” this framework, but there are limitations on what you can (or should) change. To read up more on the Suite Page Builder, go to the SAP Help documentation here: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/bf/69de830b09406caad91de8cdcaa349/content.htm

A. The SAPUI5 applications can be enhanced just like any other objects in the SAP system. For example, for the Leave Request, standard SAPUI5 application HRMSS_LR_APPR_G can either be enhanced (via the Enhancement Framework), or copied into a Z version and updated accordingly. Which direction you will go will depend on the scope of the change, as well as your company's philosophy of development within the SAP environment.
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